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Michele Claibourn

I am a research director – a political scientist, data scientist, community-engaged scholar, and senior administrator – and professor with 20 years of experience teaching, leading, and managing research and data science teams.

My own work centers on action-based research, using the tools of data science to promote accountable governance, make visible racial and other social inequities, and impact public policy and movement building.

Professional Experience

Leadership

Envision, design, and lead research projects with academic and community partners seeking to understand racial and other disparities and to develop policy responses. Manage multiple projects and train and mentor students engaging in community-engaged data science.

Founded StatLab, a data science consulting service for members of the UVA community. Built a new division within the library to support the growing data science research community at UVA, recruiting, hiring, and managing a team with diverse skills and talents..

Have managed a team of 10-12 full-time staff, 3-4 graduate fellows, and research teams across mulitple collaborations on a range of programmatic and research projects.

Director of Equitable Analysis

The Equity Center, University of Virginia

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2021

  • Faculty, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, 2021-present
  • Faculty Affiliate & Lead Data Scientist, Global Policy Center, 2019-present
  • Co-Director, Community Policy, Analytics & Strategy Lab, 2018-present

Director, Research Data Services & Social, Natural, and Engineering Sciences

UVA Library, University of Virginia

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2021 - 2015

  • Data Science Director, The Equity Center, 2020-2021 (partial buyout)

Director, StatLab and Research Data Services

UVA Library, University of Virginia

N/A

2015 - 2013

  • Associate Director, Data Science Institute, 2014-2016 (partial buyout)

Data Scientist

Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia

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2013 - 2011

Assistant Professor

Department of Politics, University of Virginia

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2011 - 2004

Assistant Professor

Department of Politics, University of Oklahoma

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2004 - 2002

Education

Methods and Software
  • Statistical modeling and data science
  • R, RStudio, Shiny
  • Data wrangling and visualization
  • Stata and SPSS
  • Text analytics
  • GitHub and reproducibility
  • Some Python and SQL
  • Qualitative methods

PhD., Political Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

2002 - 1996

B.A, Political Science

Rice University

Houston, TX

1993 - 1989

Teaching and Mentoring

Graduate Courses

University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma

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2021 - 2002

  • Imagining Equitable Policy, Public Interest Data Ethics & Practice, Data Visualization, Saving Lives with Data, Text as Data, Applied Causal Inference, General Linear Models, Linear Models, Applied Time Series, Mixed-Effects Models/Longitudinal Analysis, Introduction to Statistical Analysis

Undergraduate Courses

University of Virginia and University of Oklahoma

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2020 - 2002

  • Project First Gen +, Research Design & Analysis, The Presidency and the Public, Media & Political Communication, Political Pscyology & Decision Making, Citizen Competence in American Democracy, Introduction to American Politics

Select StatLab Workshops

University of Virginia

N/A

2020 - 2013

  • Six-part series on Data Science in R, Multiple Imputation, Cluster Analysis, Duration Models, Matching Methods, Mixed-Effects Models,Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Text Classification, Data Wrangling, Linear Modeling

REU Mentor

School of Data Science, UVA

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2019

Selected Publications and Presentations

Teaching and Writing

20+ years of experience teaching statistics and data science methods, policy, and political behavior to undergraduate and graduate students.

Design data workshop series for student and adult learning communities, including recruiting and mentoring instructors, marketing and assessment, and contributing to select topics.

Experienced writer in multiple formats, from university press books and peer-reviewed journal articles, to action-oriented reports for local and state agencies, educational materials, and informal writing.

Skilled in communicating about data, technology, and policy to stakeholders, advocates, and learners.




Last updated on 2021-12-13.

Albemarle County Equity Profile: Centering Equity in Evaluating Well-Being & Quality of LIfe for Albemarle County Resident

The Equity Center, A UVA Democracy Initiative for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship and the Albemarle County Office of Equity and Inclusion

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2021

  • With Sam Powers, Michael Salgueiro, Siri Russell, Barbara Brown Wilson, and Alissa Ujie Diamond,

Charlottesville Foster Care Study

Report to the Charlottesville Department of Social Services

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2019

  • With Charlotte McClintock and the Public Interest Data Lab

Webinar, Mapping Inequity: Partnering for Data-Informed Decision Making

International City/County Management Association

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2021

Panelist, Racial Equity and Technology

Public Interest Technology-University Network

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2020

Panel Chair and Moderator

Data & Democracy, School of Data Science Datapalooza, University of Virginia

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2019

Homework and Hubris: Preparing for Community-Engaged Courses

Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia

N/A

2019

  • With Paul Martin

Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2021

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2021

  • With Kyshia Henderson, Samuel Powers, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, and Sophie Trawalter

Citizen Participation and Congressional Responsiveness: New Evidence for Why Participation Matters

Legislative Studies Quarterly 38: 59-82

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2013

  • With Paul Martin

Creating Constituencies: Presidential Campaigns, Selective Mobilization, and the Scope of Conflict

Political Behavior 34: 27-56

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2012

  • With Paul Martin

Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability

University of Illinois Press, Series on Democracy, Free Enterprise, and the Rule of Law

N/A

2011

The Third Face of Social Capital: How membership in Voluntary Associations Improves Policy Accountability

Political Research Quarterly 60: 192-201

N/A

2007

  • With Paul Martin

Gender Differences in Citizen-Level Democratic Citizenship: Evidence from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

Presented to the International Political Science Association (2000), the Midwest Political Science Association (2001), and the Conference on Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (2002)

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2002 - 2000

  • With Virginia Sapiro
  • 2001 Winner, Sophonisba Breckenridge Award for best paper on Women & Politics, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Trusting and Joining: An Empirical Test of the Reciprocal Nature of Social Capital

Political Behavior 22: 267-291

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2000

  • With Paul Martin